Everybody, welcome to the show. This is Darin Oli. This is the Darin Oli show. What's going on? How you doing? What are you into creating your life? Are you living extraordinary? I get it. Those are big words. But those are things that we can set for our goals, our intentions. What do we want? What do we want to do? And it all kind of exists within knowing ourselves

our hearts and then eventually getting it up to our brain. And then our brain, our mind, helps us move forward in this world, right? Either the ego gets too big and it gets slapped down or we're full of anxiety and we need to calm that down. Or we're feeling happy and joyful. The interpretation of this reality is happening within the ears, right? And so this is an incredible opportunity.

An incredible opportunity for us to understand ourselves at any given moment. And especially from what we've all gone through on a global scale, anxiety can certainly go off the Richter scale.

This guest, Dr. Gail Salts is an incredible known relationship, family, mental health contributor and many media outlets. She's a go-to expert for commentary on mental health aspects of current breaking issues and news.

She is a best-selling author of way too many books. I don't know how she's done all of what she's done. She serves as a medical expert for physicians for human rights and as a host of an incredible podcast, how can I help from I Heart Radio, Dr. Salts is an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Well Cornel School of Medicine,

a psychoanalyst with the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and also has a very grounded private practice in Manhattan.

We dove into this episode. We talked a lot about mental health, has her questions about how much control do we have because there's some extraordinary people that are on the spectrum.

Extraordinary things where people seemingly are having the same experience but having completely different experiences and interpretations. We talked a lot about that because that is the truth.

One person can be witnessing something and have a completely different understanding of it and another person can be having good things coming as a result of trauma.

Or things happening in your life that's only supporting that which you perceive is going on in your world, making things more and more difficult.

So sit back, relax, enjoy this incredible mental health conversation with Dr. Gail Salts.

You are listening to The Darren O'Lean Show. I am Darren and it is my life's mission to find and share healthy and sustainable ways of living.

In this podcast I talk to inspiring people and professionals from around the world to uncover ways that we as humans can improve our lifestyles, strengthen our mindsets and take better care of this beautiful planet we call home.

If you're looking for motivation to take the next steps towards a happier, healthier life, then you're in the right place and I'm stoked that you're here.

So let's do this. This is my show The Darren O'Lean Show.

I'm so stoked to have this conversation with you and getting to kind of poking around and getting to know and listening to your podcast.

I'm just grateful that you're doing the work you're doing, especially in the wave we've all been experiencing and you starting your podcast as a result of obviously the stress in this world.

So and how can I help is a great, it's a great name for your podcast.

So thank you for that. Thank you for jumping on here.

Why don't you just tell a little bit because I'm very curious about your background as a psychiatrist as well as the psychoanalytic person as well.

So describe a little bit about your background and then I'd love to get into some things I could potentially really help some people right here right now.

Sure. Great. Well, thank you for having me today and psychiatry is the study of the mind, the brain and treatment can be done with medications, which psychiatrists can prescribe.

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